We describe an integrate-and-fire (IF) spiking neural network that incorporates spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP) and simulates the experimental outcomes of four different conditioning protocols that produce cortical plasticity. The original conditioning experiments were performed in freely moving non-human primates with an autonomous head-fixed bidirectional brain-computer interface. …
Extracting the relationship between high-dimensional recordings of neural activity and complex behavior is a ubiquitous problem in systems neuroscience. Toward this goal, encoding and decoding…
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is an age-related neurodegenerative disease characterized by histopathological hallmarks of Lewy bodies formed by accumulation of α-synuclein (αSyn) and progressive loss of…
Primordial germ cells (PGCs) are the precursors of sperms and oocytes. Proper development of PGCs is crucial for the survival of the species. In many…
Navigation and spatial memory, essential for animal survival, are founded on the hippocampal formation’s ability to host spatial neurons marking an animal’s position. Within controlled…
Cancer screening is based upon a linear model of growth and invasion. Yet, early dissemination during the lengthy pre-diagnostic phase suggests that nonlinearity in growth…
The development of proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs), which induce the degradation of target proteins by bringing them into proximity with cellular E3 ubiquitin ligases, has…
RASopathies are developmental disorders associated with mutations leading to constitutive activation of the Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway. Peripheral nerve enlargement and damage…
Endolysins, proteins encoded by phages to lyse their hosts and release their progeny, have evolved to adapt to the structural features of each host. The…
A common analysis approach for resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) dynamic functional network connectivity (dFNC) data involves clustering windowed correlation time-series and assigning…
Despite therapeutic advancements, Multiple Myeloma (MM) remains an incurable disease. To characterize the role that deregulation of the Bone Marrow (BM) microenvironment may have in…
